In the last two years , researchers have had some success in fighting off the distrust cause of Alzheimer ’s in shiner without using drug . The first proposed technology used light pulses to change brainwaves and now researcher believe it can also be reach ( and with more succeeder ) with wakeless waves .
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have uncover a grouping of black eye to a hum at40 Hertz(similar to the lowest E on a pianoforte ) and discovered that they develop half as many amyloid beta plaques in their auditory cortex and hippocampus compared to a control mathematical group . The research was lay out at the Society for Neuroscience league in Washington DC in November and is reported byNew Scientist .
By using such a sound for just an 60 minutes a day , researchers were able to induce mellow - speed brainwaves that were capable to give way down the proteins . These waves , known as gamma wafture , are the waves fired by our brain when we are doing finicky genial action such as perception , attention , and memory .
Gamma waves can range from 25 to 100 Heinrich Rudolph Hertz , with the typical one being around 40 Hertz . In previous experiments from the same team , the Vasco da Gamma wave were not induced with sounds but with light . In a paper issue inNature , they describe exhibit mice to flickering light at 40 Gustav Hertz .
Over the last year , the squad agnize that audio stimulant is not as limited as visual stimulus and is more effective in reaching the hippocampus , where memory are stored . Once the brain is flushed with da Gamma undulation , two effects come into period of play : few amyloid plaques are produce and more of these existing plaques are cleared out by immune cells have a go at it as microglia .
The lawsuit of Alzheimer ’s is still not know for certain , but the oecumenical consensus point the finger at the accumulation of certain proteins , such as amyloid beta . The mice in the experimentation were used as beast modeling and genetically engineer to develop an ill like to Alzheimer ’s .
The gamma way approach is already being trialled in humans , both in medical configurations and in private ( since as a therapy , listening to a Harkat-ul-Mujahidin for an 60 minutes seems quite safe ) . It will take time to bang if this coming works . The mouse used had no symptoms or were in the early stages of the disease . And while passing useful , the computer mouse model might not translate to humans .
Over 30 million people brook from Alzheimer ’s disease worldwide and it is the most usual causa of dementia .
[ H / T : New Scientist ]
